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Just thought I’d let you know that I finally finished loading the rest of our pictures from the trip home to the States.  You can view them in the Photos sections.
Here are a few highlights:

Fido, the Nashville Coffee shop where we had our first date on August 15, 2003

Adam at his new alma mater, DePaul University in Chicago

Our cousins Becky and SC

Enjoy,

-Jessica

I’m ‘zausted.  We are at the end of the Nashville leg of out trip, and it has been great.  Tomorrow evening we’ll fly to Chicago to spend several days before we return to Korea on Saturday.

Usually, I like to editorialize and not just list events, but eh.  I’m sleepy, and I at least want to share a few nuggets of our time with you.  We’ve had a wonderful week.  Here are a few highlights from our time in Nashville:

On Tuesday, we had coffee with Genesis and her new mom, Heather.

On Wednesday, we had lunch with our former employers and then celebrated Valentines Day with KC and Gene’ with a feast at Maggiano’s.

On Thursday, we went to Thursday Business Lunch at church, then visited with Granny.

On Friday, we had a party at KC and Gene’s house and served our friends some Korean treats and a meal of kimchi, dokkboki, mandu, curry and dubu.  Everyone loved it.

On Saturday, my parents arrived from Chicago, and Adam’s mom served up an awesome feast for us at brunch and again at dinner.  It was a great family day.

On Sunday (today), we went to church, and I sang a solo.  We had lunch with Brandon and Lesley Ann.  We spent the evening hanging out with family at Granny’s house.

Tomorrow, we’ll have breakfast at Pancake Pantry, hang out with family and then be on our way to Chicago.  Bon voyage.

-Jessica

Hey.  We just got the first batch of photos from our friends Dan and Elizabeth who have just moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  They’re great friends, and we’re so excited for the opportunities ahead of them.  Elizabeth is working in AIDS relief, and Daniel is teaching at an academy.  If we’re not exotic enough for you, you can read their new blog at this link.  We will really miss seeing them when we’re in Nashville next week, but we know they’re where they’re supposed to be.
-Jessica

What do you know, I did think of something worth writing about…

Tonight I’m teaching my last art class of the twelve-week session. They really want me to do another round, but I’m not going to. Not now at least. I really enjoyed it and everyone seemed to get a lot out of the experience, but it’s time to hang up my hat for now. For one thing, the new semester at DePaul has started up, and I’m taking more than double the credits I took last semester. The real reason though, is that I’m still just not motivated to make paintings right now, and so I don’t have much juice to pass along.

I want to be painting, and I think I could even be really good at it, but I’m simply not driven to do at this point in time. I have tons of resistance around getting down to doing it, even though I always enjoy it when I do. (I do think some of those blocks will become unplugged as we continue through the Artist’s Way course. Hey, that’s something else I need to blog about some time soon!) I just have this massive fear of failure that paralyzes me there.

On the other hand, I have no resistance whatsoever related to my photography. I love shooting photos, and I don’t think twice about shooting something beautiful when I see it. So, for now that’s what I’m going to focus on doing. If I want to paint, I’ll paint, but I’m not going to make it something I ’should be doing’ anymore.

I love the immediacy of photography. I think it’s particularly good for an ADD brain like mine- it’s so instantaneous and stimulating that it’s virtually distraction-proof. I love the way I can play with light and enhance reality too. With a camera in hand, my senses are heightened. Walking around the city becomes a moving meditation on form and light and the narrative unfolding around me. And you get the most amazing little miracles sometimes- beautiful, delicate accidents of life that are just frozen in time.

So, like I said, I dig it. I’m going to try to be more intentional about it, and try to make some money doing it as well.

In support of these photographic aspirations, when we’re back in Nashville, I’ll be picking up a brand, spanking new Nikon D40 that I just ordered. I am SO stoked. I took my friend’s D70 for a spin last week and it rocked my world. SLRs have gotten so much more user friendly with the advent of digital, once again removing resistance from the process of making good art. Excellent. I took some great photos with it that I will be posting soon. (In the mean time you can see some of the fun shots I took in Fukuoka with my great little Canon SD550 on our Photos page.)

I’m off for now. Gotta catch the train in time to make it to art class…

-A.

Free Hugs

Originally uploaded by Adam & Jessica.

We’re not totally caught up yet, but we’ve uploaded lots of the photos that we’ve taken since mid-November onto the Photos page. Highlights include an EV mustache competition, first snow at EV and, of course, Jessi’s birthday!!!

-A.

Seoul Selection, a weekly newsletter for expatriates, published Adam’s photograph “Kimchi” in this week’s edition. Adam took this picture a few weeks ago while walking around Insadong in Seoul. There was an army of Ajumas (old aunties) preparing kimchi for the winter.

Cool, huh? :).

-Jessica